steich Posted September 10, 2009 Share #1 Posted September 10, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) @Mark Norton: As you showed with your mockup FF M, the M8 battery compartment made a FF sensor impossible. Do you have an idea how they solved this problem? In the PDF manual, the battery housing looks exactly as in my M8.... Regards Stefan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted September 10, 2009 Posted September 10, 2009 Hi steich, Take a look here How did the move the battery out of the way?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
scott kirkpatrick Posted September 10, 2009 Share #2 Posted September 10, 2009 The battery hasn't moved. The lens mount moved about 3-4 mm away from the battery. If you look carefully at the posted pictures and compare with an M8 you can see it. scott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marknorton Posted September 10, 2009 Share #3 Posted September 10, 2009 When I get my camera, I'll do the measurements. Moving the lens mount is no small feat because it also requires the rangefinder to be moved as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted September 10, 2009 Share #4 Posted September 10, 2009 The battery hasn't moved. The lens mount moved about 3-4 mm away from the battery. If you look carefully at the posted pictures and compare with an M8 you can see it. scott Yes, it's quite visible... I guess even 5mm... and also the RF, consequently looks slightly "moved" (even if the new step partially "hides" the feel); they had anyway to design a new body shell (tooling etc...), so it could have been even a not so complex engineering task. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carstenw Posted September 10, 2009 Share #5 Posted September 10, 2009 There is also a slight obstruction of the shutter curtain when looking straight back from the lens mount. I guess Leica carefully calculated the largest rear element of all their lenses, and what path the rays would take back to the sensor, before they designed the plastic in that area. Can someone try a Dual-Range Summicron on their M9, please? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted September 10, 2009 Share #6 Posted September 10, 2009 And measure the collapsible Elmar-M? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shootist Posted September 10, 2009 Share #7 Posted September 10, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) The battery hasn't moved. The lens mount moved about 3-4 mm away from the battery. If you look carefully at the posted pictures and compare with an M8 you can see it. scott Yes, it's quite visible... I guess even 5mm... and also the RF, consequently looks slightly "moved" (even if the new step partially "hides" the feel); they had anyway to design a new body shell (tooling etc...), so it could have been even a not so complex engineering task. Sorry but I don't see it. I don't have a M9 to measure but to me everything looks in the exact same place. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdbzhch Posted September 10, 2009 Share #8 Posted September 10, 2009 According to the instruction manual, page 110, this lens cannot be used. Important: • Cannot be used: – Hologon 15mm f/8 – Summicron 50mm f/2 with close up setting, Not sure exactly why. rdb. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted September 11, 2009 Share #9 Posted September 11, 2009 Stefan Daniel on collapsibles (from another thread) : ..." Are all the old lenses compatible? DANIEL: They are all compatible except the dual range Summicron, except the Hologon 15mm, and you can use the 90 f/4 collapsible out of the 1960s but you must never collapse it. Other collapsibles can go in? DANIEL: Yes they can. Unlike the M8… DANIEL: Yes. The reason is that the space of full frame is much larger behind the bayonet than it was on the M8. ..." I wait for pics taken with M9 and old Elmar 50 Red Scale... ... there was the UVIR filter issue with M8, but now... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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